This article is about an ongoing initiative that addresses the challenges confronted by teacher candidates to whom English is an additional language and whose cultures are considered different from those of the Canadian mainstream. The initiative is a seminar, Language and Cultural Engagement, in which teacher candidates are prepared for practice…

Examines complexities involved in classroom applications of critical pedagogy and antiracist education, examining the concept of border crossing as a tool for progressive teaching. Drawing from the perspective of a black woman teacher educator in a predominantly white institution, the paper critically examines the limits of border pedagogy when…